Neville Marriner Quotes
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.
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I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove were as great as all the rest of the bands – old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.
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I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
